New Stock

Had a whole load of fresh books arrive today, a good assortment of Literature and Natural Science. This lot gave us some grief to get back to the office but I'd say it was worth it in the end. As always you can expect to find these up on the Website and Biblio within the next couple of weeks after we've given them a good dusting and check up.

Here's just a few of the treasures we found:

• A four volume Cuvier, published by Henderson.

• Edward Donovan's 'History of British Insects'.

• Hibberd's 'Familiar Wild Flowers'.

• A variety of Anne Pratt wild flowers.

• An early Bentley edition of Jane Austen 'Sense and Sensibility'.

• Culpepper English Physician, enlarged - 1676.

Humble Origins

Who would have thought that Orson Scott Cards short story 'Ender's Game' would not only become a cult series of young adult Sci-Fi novelettes, but a feature length Hollywood movie with people like Harrison Ford behind it.

But let's not forget this classic's humble origins, no-one knew who Card was (and because of his political views some people wish they didn't know him now), the first release of Ender's Game was within the pages of 'Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact' magazine of 1977. 

This American magazine saw the works of many great writers from the golden era of Sci-Fi. Isaac Asimov, Phlip K Dick, Hobert A Heinlein, Larry Niven and many other giants of the genre were published through Analog.

If you would like to check the book out, you can find it Here. This is the first ever release of Ender's Game as well as a classic collection of science fiction from the Era.